George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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Much there is I can stand, and most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a god commands it. Only a few I find as repugnant as snakes and poison - These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and †.
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Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.
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Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.
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Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
